I didn't mean to alarm anyone or get on any government lists. I've changed the title of the post, putting the subject matter first and the name of the song second. Perhaps they were looking for a more juicy news story. I had over 100 hits on this post from all over the world, many of which had a duration time of 0 seconds. Rik Mayall’s debut TV appearance on Boom Boom… Out Go the Lights is available to watch via YouTube.It seems that the title of this entry "Boom Boom-Out Go the Lights" caused quite a reaction. Unperturbed, BBC commissioned a second show (reuniting previously shunned comedy partners including Richardson and Ade Edmondson), to air the following spring, and within two years Rik Mayall had firmly grabbed the nation’s attention with intrepid investigative journalist Kevin Turvey – proving the boy from Droitwich was ‘not for turning’. We were all these naughty alternative comedians, weren’t we?” in an interview with TV Times. This also included Nigel Planer who, as one half of The Outer Limits, was chosen by Jackson over Peter Richardson – beginning a long-term feud between the two comedy producers.ĭespite cult comedy legend Stewart Lee describing Boom Boom… Out Go the Lights as ‘life-changing’ for an alternative comedy retrospective, the show received a subdued reception upon transmission – described by Jackson as “the worst audience response in the history of the department.” In 1995, Rik described the show as “incredibly unpopular.
Rik effusively delivers his poems ‘Vanessa Redgrave’ and ‘What Are You, Theatre?’ (penned with fellow thesp-turned-esteemed comedy writer Richard Turner) as Rick (“Wick”) The Poet, one of the few performers to be plucked from the Comic Strip and, in some cases – including Rik – away from established comedy partners. Originally pitched as a 26-part series to capture the energy of the new wave cabaret scene, BBC granted Jackson and his protégés one meagre half-hour buried discreetly in the midweek graveyard slot, sandwiched between two heavyweight current affairs programmes. IN a week that Thatcher made her belligerent ‘The lady’s not for turning’ speech to a nation of 2 million unemployed thanks to her party’s economic policies, a glimmer of hope flicked it’s fingers on television for the very first time to BBC2 viewers at 10.20pm on Tuesday 14th October 1980, via a one-off showcase of ‘alternative’ comedy in the guise of Boom Boom… Out Go the Lights.įour years to the day since he first stepped onto the stage of Manchester’s Band on the Wall venue with 20th Century Coyote, Rik Mayall forsook his university chums to go it alone for Paul Jackson’s own debut project as the newest comedy producer on the BBC block.
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